Brown trout

baby brown caught with a small spoon

And finally got my first ever brownie on the hard water with the vmc tingler spoon on the jig rod. Beautiful lil 11incher. 3 inches shy of being a legal keeper.

Picked up this really pretty Brown from the deeper pockets along the edge of the river. No rain for a couple of days meant the water was down a little. No bother though as this means I can wait into the middle of the river & fish from some very shallow rocks. It was a beautiful sunny morning & this spot is just a 5 minute stroll from our back porch. You can see from the darker water how much deeper it is along the edge & all size of trout love to sit in pockets & fallen trees along there. I managed to hook 3 in a nice little afternoon session. 2 very small & this lovely mid-sized.

Another beaut from the end of the stream! After a full night & half a day of rain, the weather finally broke & as you'll see, the conditions were perfect for trout. Nice cloud cover, sun on its way down & the water up from so much rain. Convinced my partner to let me run down there on the proviso I was no more than 10 minutes....on only my third cast I landed this stunning female.

Big Momma. Swam off quickly didn’t take any eggs either.

Solid buck on the spawn bag with a cool story to tell